Author/Editor     Rener-Primec, Zvonka
Title     Imunsko pogojene bolezni živčevja
Translated title     Immune diseases of nervous system
Type     članek
Source     Med Razgl
Vol. and No.     Letnik 37, št. Suppl 4
Publication year     1998
Volume     str. 449-59
Language     slo
Abstract     This chapter considers three groups of neurologic diseases, that result from a failure of normal immune response. One group consists of rheumaic diseases, particularly collagen vascular diseases. The second includes disorders of central and peripheral nervous system characterised by demielinization as a basic pathologic mechanism, as multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, acute postinfectious poliradiculytis and others. The third group consists of conditions, where autoantibodies are present against some subtructural unites as in polimyositis, dermatomyositis, myastenia gravis and Sydenheim chorea. Symptoms and signs pathognomonic for each condition as diagnosis and treatment are briefly reviewed.
Summary     Sestavek obravnava obolenja, ki nastanejo kot posledica motnje v mehanizmih imunskega odgovora. Razvrstimo jih lahko v tri skupine. V prvi so sistemske revmatološke bolezni (kolagenoze), ki prizadenejo tudi živčevje; temeljni patološki proces se odvija na ožilju (vaskulitisi). V drugi so bolezni, kjer je demielinizacija vodilni patološki proces, za katerega menimo, da je tudi avtoimune geneze. Sem sodijo multipla skleroza, akutni diseminirani encefalomielitis, akutni postinfekcijski polinevritis in druge. V tretjo pa uvrščamo obolenja, kjer so avtoprotitelesa naravnana proti posameznim celičnim strukturnim podenotam: na primer polimiozitis, dermatomiositis, miastenija gravis in Sydenhaimova horea, če naštejemo le najbolj poznane. Opisani so patognomonični znaki in simptomi v klinični sliki posameznih obolenj, ključ do diagnoze in možnosti zdravljenja.
Descriptors     NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
CHILD
LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC
POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
RHEUMATIC FEVER
ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED
MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE
POLYRADICULONEURITIS
FACIAL PARALYSIS
DERMATOMYOSITIS